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Bloody Heels- Rotten Romance
Label: Frontiers
Format: Download
Released: 2022
Reviewed By: Rich Catino
Rating: 8/10
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Just how I like some of my 80s style glam metal, down and dirty riffs and vocals with a sleezy LA sunset strip swagger. Bands like Spread Eagle, Love/Hate, Skid Row (Slave to the Grind), Dangerous Toys, and Babylon A.D., but in the 2010's onward its with a contemporary approach and sound. And these guys are from Latvia. Third album opens with 'Dream Killers', an 80s riff, accenting keys, rhythmic chorus, and scorching solo. Title track keys and light guitar at the start kinda like an Eclipse song, and a darker modern vibe. See the music from peers BlackRain,
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ToxicRose, or Kissin Dynamite. 'The Velvet' is lighter, melodic in the music and vocal, with gothy keys. 'Distant Memory' is hard rocking with a modern guitar riff, 'Hours Of Sinners' keys fade in to the edgy verse and chorus. Even has an Alice in Chains thing going on in its mood and solo.
'Mirror Mirror' picks up the spirit in an almost pop new wave sense in the keyboards without losing that edge, and a quiet vocal in spots. Nice dynamics. Slide guitar on 'When The Rain and I Meet' does not follow the usual conventions of an arrangement ballad-esque, bass line carries 'Angels Crying'. I'm hearing more of that new wave keys sound on hard rocker 'Burning Bridges', a softer polish vocal to a haunting melody for closer 'Oblivion' is a highlight.
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